the six components are: Strategy Corporate Structure & Operations Culture Community Membership Tools Content This is not a judgement but rather a way to make sure that your community efforts are operationally aligned so that they will be as successful as possible given where you want to be on the spectrum. For more information about what it means to be WE, see: [link] Feel free to use the graphic above but please credit Mzinga! Posted at 06:01 PM in Deep Thoughts... | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this

But all must be attended to. • “Landscaping” the site • Facilitating community activity • Moderating discussions and events • Managing Memberships • Help Desk • Training and technical assistance • Knowledge Stewardship • Community Assessment and Evaluation 4. The VCoP Balance Sheet Remember to calculate costs that are saved; work that otherwise could not have been accomplished; and the benefits competitively positioning the organization when weighing “costs” Permalink Posted by Diana Woolis on April 16, 2007 Knowledge

Communities have the following characteristics: - They are continuous, not temporal - this is not to say that people dont drop in and out but there is a core membership that interacts together over a long period of time. - Right now the market seems to get social media but we still have a long way to go in helping companies understand the value, requirements, and needs of communities. Posted at 09:45 AM in Deep Thoughts... | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference

if its a tech topic, direct them (or yourself) over to Wiley publisher Joe Wikert for some excellent and candid advice (search his archives, and youll find everything from how to write a proposal, whether you need an agent, etc.) * Consider starting a monthly "official" user group membership subscription, with something that comes in the real mail each month. Have them submit things, and use the small monthly membership fee to cover the cost of materials and mailing, etc. Creating Passionate Users About Search CPU Blog Past favorites Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain Code like a girl Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane When only the glib win, we all lose How to be an expert Creativity on speed Micromanagement: the Zombie Function The hi-res user experience Mediocrity by "areas of improvement" Death by risk-aversion Crash course in learning theory Free Range Posts (open

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quot; Membership has some defining element - a login, a place where you have to join. way where your membership is made visible. Maybe we need to think of community life cycles as something shorter and more ephemeral. The challenge of multi-membership - at some point, how many networks and communities can we belong to? Community is not Home About Contact Divas Blogroll The Diva Marketing Blog Approach To Blog Strategy GO » Looking for a presentation or workshop on blogs, eMarketing, marketing for non marketers?

Is it viable to use Facebook groups as a stepping stone to a full blown ‘for fee’ membership site? Wondering why that is so? Share: Permalink RELATED POSTS - Ten Tips for Getting Business Value out of Facebook- Webinar Themes - “Placing Faces on Knowledge”: Postscript to TheAppGap Webinar - Recording of “Facebook for Business” Webinar now available - Upcoming AppGap webinar: Using Facebook for business - Reminder: AppGap Webinar on Facebook

Its nice to discover Miguels blog. By Jack Vinson on May 10, 2007 1:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) 1 Comment(s) jackvinson said: John Tropea has a response to this article at Library clips: Blog networks or blog communities . He takes my thoughts and expands on them nicely. June 5, 2007 2:34 PM Leave a comment

Your ideas? Posted by Kathy on December 3, 2006 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How to Build a User Community, Part 1 : » Nurturing a User Community from Content Blog Communities die down soon if there are no lively discussions happening there and lively discussions are always triggered by contentious debates.... [Read Posted by: xandr | Dec 4, 2006 3:36:23 AM I have to wonder about the motivation of the less helpful users that you describe - what is the purpose of their membership of

Some examples of relational data include: kinship, friendship, boss/subordinate, project team membership, group association, etc. Note: A relation is depicted as a line on a sociogram (or social graph). subject matter expert) April 09, 2008 in Social Networking & Collaboration | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Social Networks: Making Sense Out Of Terminology : Comments You can follow this